THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
CONTENTS ARTIFICIAL BY NATURE AN INTRODUCTION TO PLESSNER’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PART I ANTHROPOLOGY PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY A THIRD WAY BETWEEN DARWINISM AND FOUCAULTISM 2 THE NASCENCE OF MODERN MAN TWO APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEM – BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3 “TRUE” AND “FALSE” EVOLUTIONISM BERGSON’S CRITIQUE OF SPENCER, DARWIN & CO AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR PLESSNER (AND US) 4 LIFE, CONCEPT AND SUBJECT PLESSNER’S VITAL TURN IN THE LIGHT OF KANT AND BERGSON 5 BODILY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCING ONE’S BODY 6 PLESSNER AND THE MATHEMATICAL-PHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE THE PRESCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY OF THE HUMAN BODY 7 THE BODY EXPLOITED TORTURE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF SELFHOOD 8 PLESSNER’S THEORY OF ECCENTRICITY A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE 9 THE DUTY OF PERSONAL IDENTITY AUTHENTICITY AND IRONY PART II CULTURE 10 ANTHROPOLOGY AS A FOUNDATION OF CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HUMAN NATURE AND CULTURE BY HELMUTH PLESSNER AND ERNST CASSIRER 11 BI-DIRECTIONAL BOUNDARIES ECCENTRIC LIFE AND ITS ENVIRONMENTS 12 THE UNBEARABLE FREEDOM OF DWELLING 13 ECCENTRIC POSITIONALITY AND URBAN SPACE 14 STRANGELY FAMILIAR THE DEBATE ON MULTICULTURALISM AND PLESSNER’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 15 DE-MASKING AS A CHARACTERISTIC OF SOCIAL WORK? 16 HELMUTH PLESSNER AS A SOCIAL THEORIST ROLE PLAYING IN LEGAL DISCOURSE 17 HABERMAS’S NEW TURN TOWARDS PLESSNER’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PART III TECHNOLOGY 18 THE QUEST FOR THE SOURCES OF THE SELF, SEEN FROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF PLESSNER’S MATERIAL A PRIORI 19 THE BRAIN IN THE VAT AS THE EPISTEMIC OBJECT OF NEUROBIOLOGY 20 SWITCHING “ON,” SWITCHING “OFF” DOES NEUROSURGERY IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE CREATE MAN-MACHINES? 21 ON HUMOR AND “LAUGHING” RATS THE IMPORTANCE OF PLESSNER FOR AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE 22 A MORAL BUBBLE THE INFLUENCE OF ONLINE PERSONALIZATION ON MORAL REPOSITIONING 23 ECCENTRIC POSITIONALITY AS A PRECONDITION FOR THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS 24 NOT TERMINATED CYBORGIZED MEN STILL REMAIN HUMAN BEINGS 25 PLESSNER AND TECHNOLOGY